North America's Indian Trade in European Commerce and Imagination, 1580-1850

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-24323-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

Reihe: Early American History Series

In North America's Indian Trade in European Commerce and Imagination, Colpitts offers new perspectives on Europe's contact with America by examining the ideas, debates and questions arising in the trading that linked newcomers with Native people. European capitalization of the Indian Trade, beginning in the 16th century, forced newcomers to confront the meaning and legitimacy of traditional gift economies and assess the vice and virtue of the commerce they pursued in the New World. Making use of French and English colonization texts, published narratives and state colonial papers, the author explores how European capital investments, credit, profits and commercial linkages elaborated and complicated understandings of North American people in the period of colonization.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Colpitts, George

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

George Colpitts, Ph.D. (2000), University of Alberta, is an historian at the University of Calgary. He has published numerous articles on the fur trade and the book, Game in the Garden: A Human History of Wildlife in Western Canada to 1940 (UBC, 2001).